Damien Enright: Community spirit can ensure we pull through - together

Last week, I wrote about "small is beautiful" as a key to an improved environment for all living things after this Covid crisis is finally over. As I wrote, I saw, in the mind's eye, the village where I live in west Cork and from which my wife and I are temporarily exiled.

There, was the main and only street, straight and a kilometre long, houses on one side and the broad expanse of Courtmacsherry bay on the other. Driving, cycling or walking down the village from the outside world – Timoleague at the head of the bay, with its ancient abbey, and roads connecting to sizeable towns – Courtmac seems a 'sleepy' place, or so would writers of rural idylls describe it.